Workmen's advocate., 1887-11-05
HUGH DAILEY'S THREAT.

 The City Attorney Apparently in the
 Service of Basscrmann's Brewery.
 The Brewers Union dcnominates Bassermann's brewery as non-union concern, and very naturally expects that friends of Organized Labor will not give special encouragement to the owners thereof by buying their beer at places where Bassermann's goods are sold. This, it seems, has operated in a manncH very unsatls- factory to the owners of the brewery, and they, following the example of Darlington, of the rOuricr, sought the services of the peoples pald ser wants to take revenge upon the union men. City Attorney Hugh Daley, whose frendlincss for the organized workingmen has been 80 well dem onstrated, sent a threatening letter to Otto Schlebel, the secretary of the Brewers Union, of which the follow ing IS a copy;
 CmY ATTORNEYS OFFICE, NEW HAVEN, Oct. IS. 1887. | OtiO .SchRbel
 DEAR SIR Complaint has been made | at this office that you have been engaged | for some time in intimidating and in ur- | ing the business of Bassermann Rock | Brewery by threatening parties who buy beer of this company. The consequence of which is you have injured the business of this company. This conduct on your part is violation of the statue sic of this State, If your are complained of again for this oifcnse you will be arrested promptly and brought before the city | court for trial.
 Hum DALEY, CUy Attorney. MT. Schlebel was surprised as well as amused at this piece of oflicialism, and answered in effect as follows: NEw HAVEN, Oct. IS, 1887. Hugh Dailey:
 SiR-Your letter of to-day is received In reply l would state that the contents of the same are entirely foreign matter to me. Should you ever have com paint against me, am ready to answer before the proper authority.
 OTTO SCllEBEL.
 Learning these facts, q representa- tive of the WoRKMEN's ADVOCATE called upon MT. Daily at his office, and asked to be shown Mir. Schicbel's letter. Daley replied that he had destroyed it, but from memory said it contained about the what IS print ed above. He said he expected Schiebel to "fall into the trap.' He said also, that someone had told Bas- sermann's beer driver, not to deliver the beer, and that the driver obeycd. In answer to a question he said he did not know whether the driver was minor or not.
 It is strange that the peoples sorv- ants should feel themselves called upon to threaten Uniol men with arrest upon such ll.msy complaints as this, even if true. One man says to another "Don't work for this con ccrn." The person addressed may certainly do as he pleases about It. If 1t IS to his interest to retain mem bership in the Union, or. not being member, he sees proper to cease work upon request, what right has the City Attorney to use the power placed in his hands by q coniding public Q to threaten third person with arrest? Of course, force may be used, but in the long run the peo- pie will become tired of such uncon- stitutional proceedings. These pol ltlclans still rely upon the stupidity of degraded voters to keep them in power. 1t is time for the working people to vote for themselves to elect the nominees of the Labor Party and take active interest in the spread of democratic ideas and the organization throughout the State of the party of the people. Until then the efforts of the organized working people can be nulliiicd and their off cers threatened and imprisoned by the servants of the capitalists who are paid out of the earnings of Labor | entirely